New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-09
WHO CAUSED KANE'S DEATH
Mr. MAGoNE's TREATMENT OF "A SICK MAN.
THE COLLECTORS EXPLANATION NOT SATISFACTORY
TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.

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! tom House, that created little stir. 1t was In
effect that Collector MaGOne, 10 large extent,
| rested tho responsibility Of Mr. Kane's death. Mr..
Kane had been sick with TYPHOID malarial fever Be
fore he fully cOvcrd the Collector ordered him to
resume work on Friday. November %. The sick man
went 10 his desk and worried long he ablo
on that day and the day following on Saturday night
he reached home completely Frustrated. IIcmOrrhsge
OF the bowels set IN I'm consequence OF which he died
on Tuesday morning The three physicians who at
tended him agreed that these hcmonhagcs were duo
10 the eKetions which h. made In going 10 The Custom
iiolc and climbing he long flights of stairs TO his
Office One of the doctors further declared that Mr..
Kancs system had received a terrible nervous shock,
which the rsticnf said was given him by Mr. Magonc
in upbraidns him for being sick
When the Collectors attention wa, called TO this pub-
lraton he denounced II as malicious fasehood lie
denied that he ever had any quarrel with Mr.. Kane,
or that there hda been any trouble between them.
lie further declared that he had offered Mr. Kane an
easier plac" III view OF his enfccbled condition. and in
general Mr.. MlsOne 50 git to convey the IMPRESSION
that he had acted throughout In al his dealings with
his empOye in the most generous and praseworthy
manner. His statement was promptly published in
The THBsL and It was supposed that this would
end tho matter. After Mr. Magone's denial had been
given to tho public, number Of people who knew tho
facts in the called this Office and branded
Collectors assertion of the affair false
Mr.. kano was born in this city in 1916 lie was
graduated from the College of the ity of New-York
when oighiccu years old, ranking among the brightest
OF his class. His taste for mathemaic, led him to
adopt the profession Of civil engineer which he prac-
tiscd successfully with General Charles X. Graham.
As city surveyor hc came I'm contact with secretary
Whitney and other public men, by whom he was high
ly esteemed exceedingly capable official and a
sensitive and un2s,uming young Among tho
members of the 9TH Regiment, where he served his
term, lie was also popular with all who knew him.
In 1873 Mr. Kane entered the Custom House, which
then under Collector Merritt, as private secretary
to General Graham, Surveyor Of the Port shortly
aitcrward hc made chief clerk of tho Surveyors
Bureau. This Office he held under General Graham
and his successor, Mr. Benedict Four years AGO Mr..
Kane obtained the highest percentage in the civil Ser
vice examination, and was appointed clerk In the
Auditors Department of the Custom House. lie
also made OF the Cyil Service Examiners.
How Mr. Kane regarded by his superOrs may
be from tbs extract of a letter sent by General
Graham to Mrs. Kane. Nobody knew Mr.. Kane
well |, for he my faithful assistant IN engineer
Ing work and subsequently my confidential clerk in
charge OF an important bureau in the Surveyors De-
partment OF the service for peiiol of SIX
teen years and ever since my warm personal friend
/ truhtully say that in my entire business career
/ havc never encountered man who more indus
rious, capable, conscientious, temperate and honest
than her
TREATED FAIRLY BY Mr. HEDDEN.
Partisan as Mr.. IIedd,n was, he recognized Mr.
Kane's eminent fitness for his position and treated
him fairly. so did Mr.. Magone-for while. Then
hc began to complain of the work IN Mr. kanc's de-
partment. The difficulty was that Mr. Kane did rot
have mon enough to do the work, and also that somo
Of the twenty or clerks under him shirhcd their
aSls lie reported these facts, but nothing was dono
10 remedy matters. Further complaints on the part
of tho Collector worried him much that be resigned
his chief clcrship, the salary OF which was - 900,
and took a Place in the Lquidating Department at
$500 This step was taken, not because OF any
conscious inability MI KsnoS part but simply that
he might escape the constant criticism OF the Col
ector, who seemed determined to get him TO resign,
simply bcause Mr. Kane was known e. b. Republican
The day after Mr. Kane was taken Ill he sent his
physicians certifc ate OF his sickness On the follow
Ing Monday be received letter from the Collector,
telling him how many days he had been absent IN tho
past on account OF sickness. how far the Liqnlans
Department behndhand. and suggesting that Mr.
Kane take some other position The letter read paus-
IDLY uSh. but Mr. Kano and his friends understood
that what the Collector really wanted was that no
should take some subordinate position, where he could
be frozen by Civil Service examinations which arc
now run I'm Tie House for the special interests
Of Democrats.
GETTING CASES MINED
The next day Mr.. Kane, though hardly able 10
walk went 10 see the Collector Nh Ma cones salu.
tation
Kane. Kane, Who f. Kane' Who knows any
thing about this man - Tn, clerks al first
much In dread Of their chief to say anything. but
finally ONE. moro courageous than The Others. sad:
Mr. Masone. know this Kane. and ~ is ono
Of the mos, honest and reliable and harlworking
in the service" Then The Collector began talking
about Kaue sickness, declaring that he had a chronic
disease.
"Tha, can't be- Mr.. Collector said Mr. Kane. for
passed hte Insurance examination only a month
ago. Mr. Magonc concluded that h. had got kane'S
case much mixed up with that Of another man. Final
L. no CONSERVED to give the sick until Friday to
recover. Typhoid malaiIa fever cannot he culcd in
. day, and when Fndly came around Kane was hardly
able to stand Eat h. much IN dread OF losing
hi, place that h. went down TO tho Custom House
leaning on he Of his wife and his brother lat
happen"d when h. entered the collectors oaice was
The Collector" he said. flow at me like a Wild
animal. stamped his foot. and before m; loomful
c c "' c VIII n r. Yes go to Your disk and
III watch you and mind, If your work Is mol UP TO
The effect Of this on a sensitive sick that
he had 10 lean chair for support, may hc mag
forty entries and then uitcrly exhausted iraSFcu h
sclf 10 his home, at No 12s Kent ave. Rfoohym HIS
going to work His fear of removal seemed TO hahs
over him like 4 nightmare. He stayed at his desk
until his associates begged him 10 20 home lie an
so at last. and went 10 lch HIS condition became
threatening Three physicians Of 'iwehpom we're
summoned but Kane grew MOlse laWdN. Ills ifiehuS
seeing that he stil worrying about his place urged
him 10 resign He yielded to their requests writing
his resignation almost hts dcaihlcd
There" he sa l. he icehy folded the ieitcr IN
rest now That was Monday of last week Inc
hemorrh,crs continued and the doctors saw that The
case was wrll gh hopeless. Their predictions PROVED
tn hc currrri Early Tuesday the exhausted mar
broathed his last leaving his vic and enid , almost
prnnilcss The funeral IN -. An'honv's fo'iaI
catholic Church. Ia Grccnpoini, on Friday ana no>l
tomchinc rulogv was dsvercd The widow has beer
advised to bring a suit against the Government anc
she may do So
A PRETTY FAIR F0R ST LChhS HNof
fair In aid OF a: Lnkas Home for INDECENT Christian
Females, was begun yesterday afterneoa at the Hotel
under tho management OF many promiaent
ladies' The city has crowded with fairs during the
,.v xaeks I'm, t,, pr-scn. fair at the Brunswick Is
surp.sso In point OF artistic arrangement and 1rauifn
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